At number 5 in the RAAF's iconic aircraft countdown is a long-serving workhorse ideal for getting in and out of tight spaces: the de Hav...

Dear Friends,             At Sunday’s FOTOBAI Committee Meeting the committee discussed a plan of action to address the ongoing uncertaint...

Next up in the RAAF Iconic Aircraft countdown at number 6 is the radar superstar in the sky: the E-7A Wedgetail.  As the first Early Warning...

  In the lead up to 31st March 2021, the official Centenary date for the RAAF, the Air Force is revealing its Top Ten Iconic Aircraft.  Clic...

In the lead up to 31st March 2021, the official Centenary date for the RAAF, the Air Force is revealing its Top Ten Iconic Aircraft. We sugg...

In the lead up to 31st March 2021, the official Centenary date for the RAAF, the Air Force is revealing its Top Ten Iconic Aircraft -  one e...

  Friends of the Odd Bods continue an Odd Bods tradition of sponsouring students at Raphael, the Ryder Cheshire Home located at Dehradun, No...

2021 is the year we celebrate the Centenary of the RAAF and the Australian War Museum has published an incredible WW2 story of one Halifax...

Member, Philip Moss, has advised us that with effect from 1/1/2021 the RAAF will re-establish No.464 Squadron, one of its WW2 squadrons. B...

  It is a month of aircraft birthdays with celebrations of the Lancaster's first flight 80 years ago on 9th January, and on 17th Decembe...

  We thought this was too important to miss - 80 years.

The AWM website recently featured an Article about the WW2 exploits of Odd Bod Dr. Edward Fleming. Readers will remember that Dr. Fleming, ...

Odd Bod Jack Bell features in this Herald Sun graphic for Remembrance Day. Remembrance Day (11/11) is dedicated to Australians who died as a...

Be ready for a fascinating trip through time as this website takes a look at wartime locations around D-Day in 1944 and how they look in 201...

  The Melbourne Shrine is preparing for Remembrance Day   on 11/11/2020 in recognition of all those who died in war, conflict, and peaceti...

  Thanks to Terry Maher for sending this photo of Howard Hughes’s “Spruce Goose” which achieved its first and only flight in 1947. At one...

Humour has been a common ingredient in Odd Bods newsletters over the decades and Past President, and Newsletter Editor, Walter Eacott (1922-...

We seem to be on a bit of Lancaster roll at the Friends of the Odd Bods website lately. That iconic WW2 aircraft has been in the news for a ...

In the example above, some Airmen listed this interesting information in the back of their Logbooks. This valuable information shows where t...

  There were 7 Crew Positions on a Lancaster Bomber. They are; 1) Pilot; 2) Flight Engineer; 3) Navigator; 4) Wireless Operator; 5) Bomb Aim...